Well we saw the commercials for the show for the last month or so, constantly showing how backwards, redneck, inbred & dumb they seemed to be on the show and it looked like it was going to be pretty damn funny.......
..... and all it was, was Deadliest Catch in the Swamp, following a few different guys boating around in the swamp hunting "Gat'rs" and selling them. Talk about false advertisement, geez.
Big frigging deal. It wasn't funny, it was just the same old same old reality US fishing/logging/trucking show.
What a disappointment.
Granted, it was educational to some extent, talking about why they hunt them, how much money they get from the hunt, how there are limited licenses given out during a limited period of time in the year, how it's to keep their population down before it explodes and causes all sorts of problems, etc..... and reminded me a lot of the annual seal hunt here in Canada. They showed how they trapped them, how they killed them, explained how they sell the meat and skins, which the skins are quite a fetch of money in the leather industry, especially the larger 'Gaters..... yet I wouldn't exactly consider how they hunt them to be very humane compared to other similar types of hunts. They bait them with large hooks the day before, then the next day they check their traps and then try & haul them towards the boat and have a spot behind the head the size of a quarter they have to shoot a bullet through to kill them, which sometimes isn't very accurate and sometimes doesn't actually kill them entirely and thus a second or third shot is required.
Which got me to thinking.... Maybe Canada should make a similar show about the Seal hunt and what they have to go through when it comes to hunting them.
I can already imagine the amount of animal rights activists trying to stop it from airing.
